Jim O'Donnell
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O'Donnell: After a sudden 'retirement,' does Faldo have a sandy trick in his broadcast golf bag?Jun 22, 2022 1:00 am - UP CLOSE, SIR NICK FALDO is said to be as warm and fuzzy as a renegade arms dealer working both sides in Ukraine. Sports Illustrated once noted that he played the game l...
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O'Donnell: Kerr's latest title with Golden State just another elbow to the gut for Chicago sportsJun 18, 2022 9:00 am - AS STEVE KERR WATCHED his Golden State Warriors snag scissors to cut down NBA championship nets Thursday night, puncture wounds should have been felt all around Chicago....
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O'Donnell: As the White Sox turn, paying fan making home games must-miss opportunitiesJun 15, 2022 1:00 am - WITH THE 2022 MLB SEASON now in its long run up the backstretch, two words appear to concisely capture the mood of more committed White Sox fans: Wary and weary. Far too...
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O'Donnell: Fields, La Russa, LeBron - all stars in the week that wasJun 11, 2022 1:00 am - RICH ARABS FROTHING over golf to the east, a Kooky Senor to the south and the most fervent fantasy football hopefuls already deep into preseason research. So yet another...
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O'Donnell: Mega-million Saudi golf tour perfect for money-driven poseurs like MickelsonJun 08, 2022 1:00 am - THE LACE CURTAIN IRISH on the West Side of Cleveland used to have an enduring life lesson they'd pass on to their children and their children's children: "Your last frie...
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O'Donnell: Stone, Jackson, Guillen - will any ever call out the Reinsdorf-La Russa implode?Jun 04, 2022 9:00 am - WHEN TED KOPPEL AND "NIGHTLINE" came to be on ABC all those years ago, the show's initial title was "The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage." It's too bad that there's no...
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O'Donnell: Will the NBA's new red-light camera calls ruin The Finals for ABC/ESPN?Jun 01, 2022 1:00 am - THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION has somehow found its own answer to those graft-ridden red-light cameras that plague the streets of select municipalities. For lack o...
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O'Donnell: Jed Hoyer is perfect for the paranoid down times of the Ricketts' Wrigleyville 3.0May 28, 2022 9:00 am - WERE RAY DAVIES AND THE KINKS aiming future vibrations at the Cubs of Jed Hoyer when they sang about "Paranoia, the destroyer?" "Paranoia" seems to be the password at Wr...
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O'Donnell: TNT merits sad props for quickly showcasing Steve Kerr's call against armsMay 25, 2022 1:00 am - NOW, IN THE WAKE OF Buffalo and Uvalde, the American capacity for outrage is once again overflowing. But in lobotomized lockstep, the American capacity for sustained, co...
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O'Donnell: Sox, Bears, Cubs ... is next Chicago champ about to wolf one down in Rosemont?May 21, 2022 9:00 am - EVEN THEIR MOST ARDENT FANS would probably acknowledge the Chicago Wolves are an acquired icicle. But on a Chicago sportscape filled with so many riddles and rebuilds, t...